Fishermans Bend: Location announced for new secondary college, train station, tram route

THE STATE Government has announced the location of a new high-rise secondary school in Fishermans Bend, with a new tram route and railway station nearby also on the cards.

THE STATE Government has announced the location of a new high-rise secondary school in Fishermans Bend.

And a new tram route and railway station to service the area are also on the cards.

The five-storey development will adjoin JL Murphy Reserve at 477 Graham St Port Melbourne.

Albert Park MP Martin Foley said the Victorian School Building Authority had scheduled an opening date of 2021, and up to 900 enrolments.

While public transport access to former industrial suburb is limited, it would be improved, Mr Foley promised.

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“The Fishermans Bend planning framework nominates public transport routes, the tram being the first one (with a rail station plan to follow),” Mr Foley said.

“The (tram) route will finish at the new school and will cross the Yarra.”

Mr Foley said it would be “touch and go”, but if transport routes were not completed by 2021, there would “certainly” be an expanded bus network to meet demand.

A new Melbourne University engineering campus is also expected to open at the former Holden site during the same time.

Mr Foley said about 6000 students would be using that $49.8 million facility, but could not confirm which tram link would be prioritised.

There would be changes in school zone boundaries in the area, he said.

“Most kids that will come here will probably come from the same precinct which is back towards South Melbourne and Southbank,” Mr Foley said.

“The Albert Park College boundary will be Williamstown Rd, but if anything there will be more changes to the primary school zones.”

Waste company Citywide Service Solutions currently operates out of the Port Melbourne Graham St depot, where the new school will be built.

Mr Foley said the Melbourne City and Port Phillip councils have a joint plan to consolidate their depots in the one site at the former General Motors Holden site, which the government has now purchased.

He said the depot at 477 Graham St could also be relocated there.

A total of $3.8 million was allocated for the planning of Fisherman’s Bend Secondary School out of the 2018-19 State Budget.

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